yes, I'm sure some bloke telling women that women's sport is no longer fit for purpose and will be replaced with some as yet to be decided categories will go down well to those that have dedicated their lives pursuing careers in it.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 16:14,
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See the thing is I hadn't been looking at womens sport as "fit for purpose"
I didn't realise it was there to keep them happy and winning medals that apparently you lot think they couldn't win normally
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 16:41,
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It’s not “I think they couldn’t win”
Recognising the difference between male and female physiology isn’t denigrating them. It’s been demonstrated to you with statistics that female people and male people are not on a level playing field if competing against each other.
The sexist thing is a mindset that implies that women might be faster than Bolt if only they tried a bit harder.
It isn’t sexist to recognise that the fastest female runner should be valued as an exceptional woman, and that that’s equally as meaningful as being the fastest man, even if the fastest man is faster.
Yet again, your problem is your unthinking assumption that “normally” = “competing with men”.
Differing physiology means that if “normal” was “unisex sport”, male people would be the ONLY people in most elite sports.
Your issue is in thinking that the statement “women are not as strong/fast as men” is a value judgement rather than a neutral statement based on observation of peak performances of both sexes plotted on a bell curve.
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A prime example of this is American Football
It is open to both sexes, yet there are no top female players. There is a reason for that.
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you were the one who liked his comment, HT
men and women ain't the same. deal with it. As to why women compete in their own comp, it's the same reason why children don't compete with adults.
why do we value and laud Serena Williams much more than 49th ranked man Bublik Alexander, despite him having an awesome name? He could thrash her in straight sets. It's mainly because she's the best in the handicap category of women, though it could also be that people like watching the gendered differences that women bring to sport, though this argument wouldn't work if you don't acknowledge they exist in some nice but misguided effort to be inclusive and non-sexist
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 23:51,
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